Human Ecology articles from September 2000

Human Ecology archives from September 2000

The Legacy of Learning.(professor Emerita Diva Sanjur, profile)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... The mutual reward of teacher-student relationships comes when the lifework of the teacher inspires the student to pursue and add to that field of study. In the field of international nutrition, Professor Emerita Diva Sanjur--who has spent more...

ISABEL ORTEGAVELEZ PH.D. '97.(teacher and scientist, Mexico)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... ISABEL ORTEGAVELEZ PH.D. '97 is head of the Department of Human Nutrition and coordinator of community nutrition at the Center for Research on Food and Development (CIAD), Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Her research focuses on dietary risk factors...

ROBERTA LARSON DUYFF M.S. '73.(scientist and writer)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... ROBERTA LARSON DUYFF M.S. '73, R.D., C.F.C.S., is a nationally recognized food and nutrition consultant, writer, and speaker. She has produced and written a broad range of nutrition textbooks, children's books, cookbooks, educational programs,...

ELIZABETH CHINYERE (ONWU) CHIBUZO, M.S. '80.(scientist and teacher)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... ELIZABETH CHINYERE (ONWU) CHIBUZO, M.S. '80, R.D., Ph.D., is a senior lecturer in the Department of Food Science and Technology at the University of Maiduguri in Nigeria. She teaches food science, nutrition, and dietetics and conducts research...

Crowded Homes Are Stressful, Regardless of Culture.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... DISPELLING WIDELY HELD myths about various ethnic groups' tolerance of crowding, a new study finds that Asian Americans and Latin Americans are just as uncomfortable in crowded homes as are Anglo Americans (Americans of European descent) and...

Fact Sheet on Radon in Schools Advises Parents and Administrators.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... IT HAS BECOME FAIRLY commonplace for homeowners to test their houses for radon, the colorless, odorless, and tasteless radioactive gas that seeps from the ground and can cause lung cancer. But schools, where a child can spend 14,000 hours by...

Breaking Free.(innovations in interior design with the new technology)
September 22, 2000... Computer technology cuts loose new ideas in interior design and allows students to expand their creativity in directions never before taken. It's the first week of class and Kathleen Gibson still hasn't finalized a textbook for her course...

It's All in Your Head.(how brain chemistry affects our emotions)
September 22, 2000... What does brain chemistry have to do with differences in people's emotional behaviors--in the ways they experience and respond to fear, anger, affection, and pleasure? As it turns out, plenty. There are some among us who would leap out of...

Research on Nutrients.(analysis of vitamins on different foods)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... Then and Now In the late 1800s physicians started to link diet to diseases such as scurvy, rickets, beriberi, and pellagra, and the term vitamin was born. By the mid 1920s, when appropriations from the Purnell Act gave the College of Home...

Genes.(nutritional aspects)
September 22, 2000... Discoveries in genomics have raised important questions for nutrition researchers: How does genetics determine nutrition needs? And how does diet influence gene expression? Just one drop of blood, taken at birth. That alone could provide...

Textile Transport.(fungis travel by garments)
September 22, 2000... Hospital patients whose immune systems are weakened by illness or therapeutic drugs are at increased risk from infection by fungi. Transmitted by spores, fungal diseases can be severe, if not fatal. Textile scientists are looking at the role of...

Experience Doesn't Count in This Surgical Procedure.(carotid surgery)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... A SURGICAL PROCEDURE to prevent strokes, involving the removal of plaque from the carotid artery, has a greater chance of ending in the death of the patient when the surgery is performed by surgeons who have been in practice the longest,...

So What Do You Think?
September 22, 2000... Opening Communication on Genetically Engineered Foods Many Cornell researchers and extension educators are actively involved in addressing concerns about genetically engineered foods. But what are their personal thoughts about the risks and...

Safer Foods through Irradiation--But Will They Sell?(analysis)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... JUST BECAUSE THE USDA approved the process of irradiation for raw meat and meat products in December 1999 and the FDA permitted using the technology for fresh shell eggs starting last July, consumers shouldn't expect to see their local...

Mann Library to Digitize Historical Home Economics Literature.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... TO PRESERVE AND MAKE available worldwide the most important and influential volumes on the history of home economics, Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell University will digitize the top 1,500 documents--some 450,000 pages--in the field, making...

Consumer Protection--Or Overprotection?
September 22, 2000... For more than a decade Alan Mathios has been investigating how the regulation of nutrition information affects consumer knowledge and behavior. What he's found is surprising. One of the hottest news stories going these days is the...

Companies Are Turning to Tents, Trailers to Meet Changing Space Needs.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... WHEN MONSANTO NEEDED a fast solution to building space for 40 researchers, it erected a tent. Or, more accurately, it turned to a temporary tentlike structure that took only 28 days to erect. A year later, to Monsanto's surprise, 89 percent...

Low Body Iron Makes Exercise and Physical Work Difficult for Women.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... WOMEN WITH LOW BODY iron, yet who are not anemic, have a much harder time sustaining exercise and adapting to training, concludes a new Cornell University study. But after a period of training, iron-deficient women who boost their body iron by...

Technology and Human Ecology.(how they influence in our daily lives and forecasting)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... TECHNOLOGY SURROUNDS us and touches every aspect of our lives. We can safely predict that technology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology will continue to drive an ever-increasing rate of change in the new millennium. What Foods we eat, how we...

Home Economics Was a Gateway for Women into Higher Education, Science Careers.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... AS THE COLLEGE OF Human Ecology celebrates the centennial of the field of home economics with events throughout the year, its faculty and administration are reflecting on the college's role as the gateway for women into higher education and...